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Claim: Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has died, according to his longtime ally, Senator Christopher “Bong” Go.  Rating: FALSE Why we fact-checked this: The claim was made in a Facebook video uploaded on September 13, which has reached over 1.7 million views, 7,800 reactions, 2,900 comments, and 872 shares asContinue Reading

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Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show. Sign up for Here’s The Deal with Lisa Desjardins: https://to.pbs.org/41q6E8i Subscribe for exclusive content in our newsletters: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/subscribe PBS News podcasts: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/podcastsContinue Reading

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New inventions (https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691233079/how-progress-ends) often cause great excitement (https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk:2083/publications/the-technology-trap-capital-labor-and-power-in-the-age-of-automation) yet can take years (https://oms-www.files.svdcdn.com/production/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf) to catch on. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Peter Thal Larsen talks to Carl Benedikt Frey of Oxford University about the erratic history of technology (https://www.reuters.com/podcasts/the-big-view/what-china-has-teach-us-about-technology-podcast-2025-09-02/) – and what it tells us about artificialContinue Reading